The Early Link Blog

The Early Link Podcast: First Things First: An Interview with Ruby TakanishiThursday, November 03, 2016
In this installment of the Early Link Podcast, we speak with Ruby Takanishi about her new book First Things First: Creating the New American Primary School. In the interview, Takanishi says, “primary education today reflects the social and economic divides in our country.” While some children in the United States are getting an outstanding world class education, many more children are in danger of being left behind. She describes early education...
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Preschool Promise UpdateWednesday, November 02, 2016
Preschool Promise, enacted by Oregon’s State Legislature in 2015, began serving approximately 1,300 children across the state in September. In its inaugural year, the program is designed to deliver high-quality early learning opportunities to families with incomes up to 200 percent of the Federal poverty threshold.
The goal of Preschool Promise is to reach all low-income children with high-quality preschool programs to close the achievement gap and improve...
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A new report from the Learning Policy Institute shares lessons from four states (Michigan, West Virginia, Washington and North Carolina) on how to build a high-quality early learning system for childr...

The Department of Education has published an unprecedented look at chronic absenteeism, a huge educational crisis in the United States. While early learning is not called out specifically in the study...

In 2015, the Oregon Legislature made a promise to Oregon's children. They invested in Preschool Promise, a program that will provide high-quality preschool to more than 1,000 kids from low-income fami...

This new study, conducted by the Children's Institute and Chalkboard Project, finds that rural Oregon students face the twin challenges of poverty and distance in meeting their education goals. The st...

Oregon's push to ensure all children receive a developmental screening is showing results. An Oregonian article underlines that an increasing number of children with developmental delays are being ide...

For nearly two decades, the number of dual language learners – students who speak a language other than English at home – enrolled in Oregon schools has steadily increased, now to more than ten perce...